National Museum of the American Indian

We only visited one of the Smithsonian museum while we were in Washington DC earlier in the month and I chose the National Museum of the American Indian. I have a soft spot for tribal/Native museums after having worked for the Alutiiq Museum & Archeological Repository in Kodiak.

 The exterior of the building.

 Mom with one of the scriptures outside the museum

 A woven boat???

 Paddles made by Jerry Laktonen

 A Yupik mask

 Ceramic made by Pomonkey tribe members - I took this for an old work friend whose father is a member.

I believe this was the outside of the Rasmussen theatre

 

 

The museum was awesome. A nice exhibit of many different cultures. What I found most impressive was that it taught history and then on another floor it was more of a "who we are now" type exhibit. I believe that's an important distinction that Native peoples are current, not past.